THE term "Haul-off warp" is used to describe the rope which is made fast to an anchor laid out to sea opposite the launching place of the Life-boat, and with- out the he'p of this appliance there are many stations where the aid...
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Preparations finished for their annual cheese and wine evening, the ladies of Port Erin guild, Isle of Man, await their guests. Among the committee members are (extreme I) Mrs D. Maddrell, chairman, widow of former Coxswain Dennis Maddrell,... - View image in PDF
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A LETTER of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been addressed to Coxswain Alfred Manning and the crew of the Margate, Kent, life-boat for the part they played in saving two...
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Ferry fire puts all emergency services on alert at Harwich Harwich, Walton andFrinton and Aldeburgh East and South East Divisions Four lifeboats, three helicopters, three tugs and a harbour launch were despatched to the passenger and cargo...
APRIL 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Information was picked up by North Foreland Radio and passed through the coastguard to the life-boat station that a steamer was aground off Great Yarmouth and in need of tugs. At 7.11 in...
The remains of the Watson cabin motor life-boats from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight and Selsey, Sussex. Nothing is left forward but the keels, deadwoods and iron floor-straps. On the left can be seen the forward steel bulkhead of the engine-room... - View image in PDF
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
IN 1824.
Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
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'Well, it was like this. I went to Ted and Mary's Life-boat Tavern at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and hadn't been in the bar a minute before I saw with my own eyes one of the R.N.L.I.'s super new 48-foot 6-inch boats ahead of me. .... - View image in PDF
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THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Richard H. Hayes, of Poole, Dorset. He has been coxswain for the past seven years..
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—A15.10 on the morning of the 25th of August, 1955, the Stornoway coastguard re- ported that the S.S. Graigaur, of Cardiff, which had a crew of thirty- four, had gone aground east of Barra Head and needed a tug....